Improvement in paper file and holder



J. O. MOORE. Paper File and Holder.

No. 221,339. Patented Nov. 4, I879.

WITNESSES g INV NTOR W6 00w, Zgy- ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES C. MOORE, OF SALTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER FILE AND HOLDER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 221,339, dated November4, 1879; application filed March 20, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES C. MOORE, of Saltsburg, in the county ofIndiana and State of Pennsylvania, have invented anew and valuableImprovement in Combination File and Binder; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being bad to theannexed drawings, making a part of this specification. and to theletters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a top view of myimproved file and binder. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof.Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 are details of parts.

This invention has relation to combined files and binders for invoices,receipts, bills, prescriptions, and other papers; and it consists in theconstruction and novel arrangement of a clip having a slideway in itsbase, and holes or notches in its upper branch, and sliding fasteners,having their bases wider than their prongs, adapted to be used inconnection with said clip, as hereinafter shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the clip,consisting of a base, B, and lever-top O, and having a spring, D. Theforward edges or lips of the clip are made broad and sufficientlystraight for the purposes to which it is adapted.

The base is provided in rear of its lip with a slideway, a, formed bybending the metal of the edge backward to form the front branch andattaching a rear branch to the base, or it may be otherwise constructed;but its slot or way a should be straight and open at each end.

The lip of the lever-top is provided just over the slideway with severalnotches, b, and is usually made with a pocket or recess, 0, above thenotches or toward the handle, having an open or slotted face, andadapted for the reception and display of the proper headings for thearticles being filed, according to their character, as receipts, bills,or otherwise. Underneath, in rear of the openings 1), a transverseflange or gage, 70, serves to keep the up per edges of the papers even.

The fastener d consists of a simple basestrip of metal having prongs aextending upward therefrom, the base-strip being wider than the prongs.This fastener may be made in one or more pieces, but I prefer to make itof a single piece of metal having its ends bent upward to form theprongs.

These fasteners are used in connection with the clip, as follows: Thebase is introduced into the slideway, with which it is wide enough toengage, while its prongs are narrow and pass readily along the slot 2,or channels betweeuthe margins of the slideway-lips, The fastener isthen adjusted with its prongs extending upward through the notches oropenings I) of the lever-top O. The clip is now ready for use, and thepapers to be filed are put upon the prongs by their upper edges, and aresecured by the pressure of the levertop, the prongs passing through thepapers and the openings in the lip of said top.

hen the file is full the lever-top is raised and the papers with theirfasteners are moved out of the slideway. The fasteners are then clinchedon the papers, binding them securely together, and new fasteners beingintroduced into the clip, it is ready for use again.

It is evident that the clip may be made in different forms, and it isnot, therefore, designed to confine this invention to the hingedspring-clip shown.

When made in two or more pieces the fastener-base y, as shown in Fig. 6,is arranged to receive the prong-bases underneath, and notchedto allowthe prongs to pass upward.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

A filing-clip having broad lips, a slideway, a, on the base, andcorresponding notches b in the top, adapted for use in connection with awide base sliding fastener, having upright prongs, as shown anddescribed.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES CHAMBERS MOORE.

VVitnesscsi J. S. S ITH, FRANK BoBINsoN.

